human height growth limitation age

[vijay86]

hello !

i got few medical question to ask ....

1. At what age does a human stop growing tall ?

2. i'm 18+ years old and my height is 169 cm or 5"7' . How can i become more taller. ( i am as tall as my dad now and my mum is shorter than me).

thank u

[Tormod]

Actually, 169 is about 5'6. Because I'm 5'7 and that's about 171 cm.

Welcome to the tall club.

[Aki]

I think for some guys, they don't stop growing until they're 20, but for girls, they stop growing at 17.

[Turtle]

___There is a formula (I forget it) that they use to predict your adult height & it is based on your height when your either 18 or 24 months.(I forget which)

[orbsycli]

i stopped growing when i was 15, and am taller than everybody in the history of my family. just some facts to over throw the majority.

[zadojla]

Beccareb stopped growing at 13, and is just over 5' tall. I stopped at 16 at just under 6'. I had my wisdom teeth, too.

If you've stopped growing, you're done, but I think the only other alternative would growth hormone, which no reliable endocrinologist prescribes for people over 5' tall.

[Turtle]

I have heard that your ears & nose never stop growing? Any body else hear that?

[orbsycli]

yeah I have heard that, very strange. On the contrary, it's weird to think that your eyes never grow at all.

[Fishteacher73]

Forensic anthropology has given a lot of help in this area. Although various parts of the body grow/stop growing at diferent stages, if I remember that most all growth (under normal circumstances) usually stops ot about 25. Through an examination of just a few specific measurements (bone radii at specific places, etc.) a pretty good estimate of stature can be derrived (Uusaully with a margin of error of only about 5-10%, although this can be even less if other correllary measurements are factored). Age/Sex/Race are all factors, but within these parameters there is a very direct ratio of various measurements to the over all stature of the individual). Other factors of the skeletal remains can also be used for determinig sex/age/race. The femur measurements mat be very similar between a 14 year boy and a 40 year old female, but various cranial fetures as well as pelvic stucture can give clues to age and sex. (The pelvic sturcture is quite different in male and female, as well as the texture of the pelvic bones change with age. Males have a occipital lobe on their skulls the females generally do not have).

[alxian]

5'7" is tall?? WOOHOOO!!!

but seriously.. aren't humans growing as part of evolution? taller people mate more than shorter people? or is it that evolution is causing us to grow taller as per our better diets and better overall health?